BRIDGEPORT -- A known gang member faces gun and drug charges after police executed a search and seizure warrant at his home this week.

Brandon Parks, 20, is a known Bridgeport Bloods gang member, police spokesman William Kaempffer said. Parks was arrested Tuesday night at the home where he lives with his mother, on Success Avenue in Stratford, Kaempffer said.

The operation was conducted by the Bridgeport-based Statewide Urban Violence Task Force and involved members of both the Bridgeport and Stratford police departments.

"These investigations are labor intensive, but the results are so important to reducing violence," said Bridgeport Police Chief Joseph L. Gaudett Jr. "Another illegal gun is off the street. I want to thank Stratford police for their assistance."

A search of Parks' home found a loaded 9 mm pistol under his bed as well as additional loaded magazines and boxes of ammunition, Kaempffer said.

Several small plastic bags of marijuana were found in the medicine cabinet of an upstairs bathroom, he said.

Scales, plastic packaging and vials, and $713 in cash were also found in the house, the Bridgeport police spokesman said.

Parks was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell, possession of marijuana with intent to sell within 1,500 of a school, operating a drug factory, possession of drug paraphernalia and illegal possession of a firearm. He is being held under a $100,000 bond.